Chapter 53 Entertaining Others and Entertaining Yourself Magazine
If one person's thoughts can influence other people, then Ren Fei has become a lump of Xiang now.
A veteran fiction magazine that is very influential in the four cities of Yanjing, Yangcheng, Pengcheng and Modu has become a mess because of the unexpected rise of Ren Fei's comic magazine.
This veteran magazine, called Entertainment and Entertainment, is a fiction magazine focused on entertainment, and it is very influential not only in the four cities, but also in the whole of China.
Each issue of the magazine can sell more than 20 million copies in every city in the country, and basically one out of every 50 people will buy this magazine, which can be said to be a national magazine, and it is also unique among entertainment magazines, and there is no magazine that can shake its position at all.
But it is such a magazine, but I have to have a headache about Ren Fei's magazine that has just been released.
At this time, Li Yuhua, who was sitting in Yanjing, in the office of the president of the headquarters of the Entertainment Magazine, looked at the magazine on the table with a headache.
Before, because Li Yuhua was ill, he had to go to a foreign country for medical treatment for half a year, and during the time he left, the magazine was basically handed over to Zhang Tianxiong, the vice president.
It wasn't until a month ago that Li Yuhua returned to the magazine.
"President, we have to pay attention to this magazine, although it has only sold 500,000 copies now, but it has been sold out in just three days, setting a new record for the sales of new magazines in the whole world, and this is because they only printed 500,000 copies, which is too much of a threat to us. The vice president who brought the magazine, Zhang Tianxiong said with a serious face.
"Hey, not only that, you see, this magazine has a beautiful cover, and the texture of the manuscript paper does not look like a bargain, this magazine is completely printed according to the international brand magazine, which is a grade higher than ours. ”
"Not only the print, but also the content of the magazine is more than ours, and it only sells for 10 yuan, you know, our magazine sells for 15 yuan. ”
Speaking of this, the wrinkles on Li Yuhua's face deepened, and he rubbed his temples vigorously with his hands.
"So what are we going to do, it looks like this magazine is menacing, if we don't respond in time, maybe... ”
Although Zhang Tianxiong didn't continue, Li Yuhua also understood what he meant, and this was also the reason for his headache.
"But what can we do?" Shaking his head, Li Yuhua leaned back in his chair.
After thinking about it, Zhang Tianxiong said: "Then we can reduce the price, or publish a weekly magazine to increase sales, after all, we now have a lot of authors, and it is more than enough to publish a daily magazine, and those authors often complain that the position of our magazine is not enough." ”
"You. Hearing Zhang Tianxiong's words, Li Yuhua couldn't help but say helplessly, "I said before that at most, it can only be published in semi-monthly magazines, not more, if it is published too much, readers will feel bored." ”
"And although we have a lot of authors, but there are not many powerful ones, if we rush to publish a weekly, it is easy to mix in some uneven works, in that case, it will have a great impact on our magazine. ”
"But if we don't do this, are we happy to watch that magazine slowly encroach on our territory and finally force us out of business?" Seeing Li Yuhua's inaction, Zhang Tianxiong suddenly hated that iron could not be made of steel.
Seeing Zhang Tianxiong's appearance, Li Yuhua couldn't help frowning and asked: "If our magazine is really defeated so easily, we can only blame us for being inferior and deserving of closure." Even if we are lucky enough to bring down that magazine, then other magazines will pop up in the future, should we use this method to suppress our opponents every time?"
"Forget it, you're the president, you have the final say, I don't care. ”
In the end, Zhang Tianxiong slammed the door and walked out.
"Hey, is our magazine really at the end of the road?"
Looking at the sound of Zhang Tianxiong leaving, Li Yuhua couldn't help but sigh deeply.
In fact, before Ren Fei's comic magazine appeared, Li Yuhua had already discovered that there were many problems within the magazine of Entertainment and Entertainment.
One of the biggest problems is this vice president Zhang Tianxiong.
Unlike when they first started their business, they both started magazines with passion and dreams.
After a lot of wind and waves, until now it has finally become an industry giant, and gradually some people have begun to be corrupted by a comfortable life.
If it were Zhang Tianxiong during the entrepreneurial period, when he encountered a strong opponent like a comic magazine, he would never propose such a method, but would first find a way to improve his strength, make his magazine content impeccable, and want to fundamentally defeat the enemy.
As it is now, it is necessary to suppress opponents, rather than thinking about where they are lacking, that will cause readers to abandon their magazines.
This kind of Zhang Tianxiong made Li Yuhua feel very unfamiliar.
Although Li Yuhua has heard a little about Zhang Tianxiong's corrupt life over the years, many years of brotherhood have made him dare not think badly, so that he can still believe that Zhang Tianxiong is just a little wrong with his life style, but his work is still the same as before.
However, this idea disappeared after Li Yuhua saw Zhang Tianxiong and his secretary doing unspeakable things in the office.
You must know that Zhang Tianxiong used to be a strict person and a person who was even stricter than himself, not to mention doing these things in the office, even when he saw that his subordinates were not serious about going to work, he would go up and say a few words.
It was also after this incident that Li Yuhua secretly investigated and learned that many potential editors and authors in the magazine were forced away by Zhang Tianxiong.
And the reason why these people left was partly because Zhang Tianxiong had seized the article, and some of them were because they were unwilling to let Zhang Tianxiong take advantage, so they left the magazine in resentment.
What made Li Yuhua even more angry was that Zhang Tianxiong actually embezzled public funds without permission.
It was also at that time that Li Yuhua learned that their magazine, although it still looked like an invincible giant, had been corroded inside.
Looking at the magazines whose novels are getting worse and worse, and the authors who are in the company more and more, but they can only make sycophants and can't write good novels at all.
Li Yuhua couldn't help but sigh deeply.
You must know that this magazine was founded by the two of them with hard work, and now Zhang Tianxiong has actually become a moth lying on the magazine and constantly eating the flesh and blood of this giant.
If it weren't for the reputation that the two of them had worked so hard to build up for the magazine, as well as the popularity they had accumulated over the years, I'm afraid that the magazine would have closed down long ago.
Especially when he learned that the magazine was going to publish a weekly magazine, the anger in his heart was about to overflow to his face.
The content of the original monthly magazine is already unsatisfactory enough, and the semi-monthly magazine is mixed with some unpopular novels, and at this time there is a weekly magazine, isn't that just preparing to make a stinky whole magazine?
So the first thing he did when he returned to the magazine, Li Yuhua stopped the weekly magazine that was about to go public.
After thinking about it, Li Yuhua took out his mobile phone and made a call, and smiled enthusiastically, "Hey, is it Brother Platinum Dragon? I'm Li Yuhua." ”
"It's me, what do you want me to do?" but the person on the other side looked very cold.
"Oh, didn't I give Tianxiong the magazine to take care of it because of my health before, but now I'm fine, and I'm just back to take care of the magazine. Hearing the other party's cold tone, Li Yuhua's face hurt.
Before, he heard that during his absence from the magazine, Zhang Tianxiong had an unpleasant quarrel with Bai Jinlong, which made Bai Bailong, a famous novelist, save money with the magazine, and caused the magazine's sales to drop a lot.
Although sales have slowly rebounded later, the departure of those loyal readers has also caused the magazine's reputation to decline, and overall, the gains outweigh the losses.
So this time in the face of the strong enemy of comic magazines, Li Yuhua plans to find the platinum dragon again.
"Oh, is that so?" Hearing Li Yuhua's words, Bai Jinlong's tone on the other side of the phone was slightly better.
"Yes, I also heard about it last time, and I know that it was Tianxiong's fault, why don't we come out for tea, and I will ask Tianxiong to apologize to you. Li Yuhua said apologetically.
"Forget it, that's not a big deal, after all, I've terminated my contract with your magazine now, so let that matter go with the wind. Bai Jinlong said.
"Haha, well, let's forget about that unpleasant thing, after all, we are all friends. Haha smiled, Li Yuhua said.
"Tell me, what the hell are you looking for me?" asked Bai Jinlong.
"Hehe, isn't it that the magazine has nothing to see recently, I plan to make an appointment with your brother, and I don't know if your brother has any manuscripts recently, even if he hasn't finished it, he can use it for his brother to respond to emergencies. When Li Yuhua said this, he couldn't help beating a drum in his heart, worried that Bai Jinlong would solve himself because of Zhang Tianxiong's matter.
But in the end, after a minute of silence, Bai Jinlong opened his mouth and agreed, "Okay, Lao Li, if someone else came to me for this matter, I wouldn't even answer the phone, I have never received such an insult after being famous for so long." ”
"But for the sake of being thin to me before you, I'll help you this time, it just so happens that I just wrote a novella martial arts novella, which was originally going to be sent to Sword Laughter Magazine, if you don't dislike it, take it and use it.
"It's going to be disgusting there.,A novella is enough for me to publish a few issues.,Thank you for your kindness.,Next time I'll invite you to tea.。 Hearing Bai Jinlong's words, Li Yuhua was immediately overjoyed.
"It's okay to drink tea, but if you make an appointment, it's only once, and this is what I see in your face. ”
After saying this, Bai Jinlong hung up the phone.
"Hey~~~ This relationship is broken. Listening to the busy sound on the phone, Li Yuhua couldn't help but sigh deeply, he really couldn't imagine that in the six months since he left, Zhang Tianxiong not only made the entire magazine a miasma, but also made many big-name writers angry.
After sighing, Li Yuhua took his mobile phone and continued to make calls.
"It's time to call Lao Zhang next, I hope Lao Zhang can talk as well as Bai Jinlong. ”